It’s fair to wonder if Adyen had to make any financial concessions to win the business of a platform of eBay’s size.Īdyen is expected to file for an IPO as early as this year. For now, the company isn’t saying if that’s the case. One would assume, then, that there’s a good chance that eBay is taking an equity stake in Adyen alongside the commercial agreement so it can benefit from the upside this will create. That said, “most sellers can expect their costs of payments processing to be reduced after they transition to eBay’s intermediated payments model,” eBay said in its announcement.įor Adyen, the eBay deal is a huge win for a company of its size Adyen registered net revenue of $178 million in 2016 compared to nearly $11 billion - yes, with a B - for PayPal. The move is also expected to eventually add $2 billion of revenue to the eBay business, because the company will start to charge eBay sellers for the payments service today, PayPal does. Adyen supports more than 200 payment methods across the world, eBay said in a blog post announcing the news. PayPal’s stock dropped as much as 12 percent on the news in after-market trading.Īt eBay, the move is being billed as a way to take more control over the critical checkout experience as other giant online shopping destinations like Amazon and Alibaba have, while giving more payment options to eBay shoppers. PayPal will cease to process card payments for eBay at that time. But Adyen will become the primary payments processor for eBay sites across the world.Īfter the existing eBay-PayPal agreement ends in 2020, PayPal will remain a payment option for shoppers on eBay, but it won’t be prominently featured ahead of debit and credit card options as it is today. In PayPal’s place, eBay has signed a long-term deal with Adyen, an Amsterdam-based payments company that was founded in 2006 and has counted global companies like Uber, Netflix and Spotify among its customer base.Īdyen’s business is solely focused on providing back-end payments services, like credit card processing, to businesses, so you won’t see any Adyen payment buttons pop up on eBay. One of the tech industry’s most storied partnerships is coming to an end.ĮBay announced today that it will stop working with PayPal as its back-end payments service in 2020 and will start to move a small percentage of its payments volume to a new partner later this year.
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